Новости за 23.02.2024

A man was arrested in San Diego Thursday for allegedly leaving a voicemail on the personal cell phone of an Arizona election official in 2022. William Hyde left a violent threat on the voicemail of the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office employee’s phone “on or about November 29, 2022,” the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced. Hyde,...

A robotic lunar lander developed by Houston-based Intuitive Machines became the first private spacecraft to land on the moon Thursday. The Odysseus lunar lander’s victory was the first U.S. landing on the moon in over 50 years, and faced some difficulties in its trip to the lunar surface, with Intuitive Machines CEO Stephen Altemus calling...

Former White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said he thinks the “Veepstakes” could “drag out” as former President Trump continues to tease a shortlist of candidates who would be his running mate. Mulvaney, who served in the Trump administration, joined “The Hill on NewsNation” to discuss the contenders. He said he thinks Trump just...

A stomach virus known as the “norovirus” is spreading across the Northeast region of the United States, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The three-week average positive tests for norovirus in the region reached 13.9 percent in recent weeks and held above a 10 percent positive rate since the...

Republican state Senators in Louisiana advanced legislation Thursday that allows adults 18 years and older to carry concealed weapons without a permit. The Senate approved that bill, along with another that would provide a level of immunity from civil liability for a person who uses a concealed gun to shoot a person in self-defense, The...

The Odysseus lunar lander made a historic moon landing Thursday afternoon, becoming the first private spacecraft to do so and marking the first U.S. moon landing in more than 50 years. “I know this was a nail-biter, but we are on the surface, and we are transmitting. Welcome to the moon,” Intuitive Machines CEO Stephen...

The New York attorney general’s office is asking the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to double down on its warnings and discourage the use of an asthma drug. “The New York Office of the Attorney General writes to encourage the FDA to address the dangers of montelukast, particularly to the most vulnerable population—minor children—and protect...

The U.S. has charged four foreign nationals with shipping Iranian-made weapon parts to the Houthi rebels in Yemen, a shipment that was seized by Navy SEALS in a daring raid last month off the coast of Somalia. The Department of Justice (DOJ) unsealed an indictment Thursday against Muhammad Pahlawan, Mohammad Mazhar, Ghufran Ullah and Izhar...

Welcome to The Hill's Energy & Environment newsletter {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment   The Big Story EPA lets eight states sell high-ethanol gas all year The Biden administration will allow eight states to sell gasoline made up of a higher concentration of ethanol all year— though it's doing so one-year later than...

Some scholars refer to CON laws as a “competitor’s veto.” I call them “permission to compete” laws. Whatever you call them, these laws assault patient autonomy by empowering a government commission and its cronies to decide how many and what kinds of health care services West Virginians can access.

The United States must end its shameful mistreatment of the Marshallese people, who have been forced to sacrifice and suffer so much for our country.

Experts from the United Nations issued a statement this week criticizing companies for chemical contamination in North Carolina. In a statement, a group from the U.N. that included Marcos Orellana, special rapporteur on toxics and human rights, called out chemical companies DuPont and Chemours. “Even as DuPont and Chemours had information about the toxic impacts...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) went after New York Judge Arthur Engoron on Thursday, demanding he be “disrobed” for his $355 million business fraud verdict against former President Trump last week. Engoron ruled that Trump and his company committed business fraud by manipulating the value of assets, including inflating the value of his Florida home,...

Vice Media will lay off hundreds of employees and stop publishing on its website, the company's leadership announced this week. CEO Bruce Dixon said, "It is no longer cost effective to distribute our digital content the way we have done previously," in a memo sent to employees and shared with several media outlets Thursday. Vice...

President Biden is wrestling with taking executive action on how asylum claims are handled at the southern border, a move that has triggered anger from some Democrats but one in which the White House is under pressure to take action. The tougher measures could benefit Biden politically by allowing him to point to actions he’s...

Immigration advocates and progressives are raising alarms over reports that the Biden administration plans to use executive action to restrict asylum applications along the U.S.-Mexico border. The reports, sourced to unnamed administration officials by a handful of media outlets, come as advocates were telegraphing a thaw in their relations with the White House after butting...

Vice President Harris on Thursday bashed the Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos are people as hypocritical and placed the blame on former President Trump. “Think about that, individuals, couples, who want to start a family are now being deprived of access to what can help them start a family,” she said. “So on...

Cast members of the “Real Housewives of Orange County” filmed a cameo video trolling Republican businessman Eric Hovde after he launched a Senate bid in Wisconsin this week against Democratic incumbent Sen. Tammy Baldwin. Hovde's California ties have already become a source of attack by Democrats. A website created by the Democratic Party of Wisconsin...